March 17, 1865, when he was appointed engineer of the Oil Creek Railroad. In July, 1865, he 2 The poem in full appears in "The Conestoga Six-Horse Bell Teams of Eastern Pennsylvania," by John Omwake, 1930, p. 122. �accepted the position of principal assistant engineer and in September, 1865, was

Pequea Creek. Few hills in the county made the old pioneer motor cars chug so energetically as a climb out of this Hollow, either by the elbow corner to Marticville or up Sand Hill to Centre. The mill and the magnetic iron ore mine nearby helped to make the place known to the outside world, otherwise few

flow of water was again nearly normal. Curtailment of the supply of Conestoga water was threatened from another cause. In 1900 the city of Lebanon planned to con- struct a pumping station on the old Horseshoe Turnpike, northwest -0f Brickerville, to draw water from Hammer Creek into the im- pounding